The Blood of Satan: The 1974 Michael Taylor Exorcism
In the fall of 1974, a church group in Yorkshire prayed over a man all night long and came out of it believing they had driven dozens of demons out of him. By sunrise, those same people were working the phones, scared for his wife. Michael Taylor was an out-of-work butcher in Ossett, a wool town losing its mills and its pits. Christine Taylor was raising their 5 kids and kept showing up for her husband as he changed in front of her. This episode follows a charismatic fellowship group, a 22-year-old preacher, a vicar who said he saw murder in a man’s eyes, and a chain of phone calls that each pointed somewhere else. It also gets into how one Sunday morning pushed the Church of England to rewrite its rules on exorcism, and the demon count that keeps changing every time somebody tells this story.
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